As Afghanistan enters 2026, deep fractures inside the Taliban leadership threaten the regime's grip on power in part due to ...
The Taliban leader once warned of a split: A BBC investigation reveals how attitudes to women, the internet and religion are ...
Report claims Hibatullah Akhundzada ‘spooked’ by possibility of schism between his hardline base in south, more pragmatic ...
According to recent media reports, Hibatullah Akhundzada’s Kandahar-based leadership views China as a key economic and ...
Kabul – A speech attributed to Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has laid bare internal differences within ...
A suicide attack that killed the Taliban minister of refugees and repatriation, Khalil Rahman Haqqani, in December 2024, ...
A leaked speech by Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada highlights divisions between hardline Kandahar loyalists and pragmatic Kabul ministers, raising questions about governance and the movement’s ...
Leaked audio and internet shutdown reveal deep divisions inside Taliban leadership, raising fears of instability within ...
Aghanistan is a country most of us would rather forget. I learnt that the hard way a couple of years ago when I returned there and suggested that the West should re-engage with the Taliban. Few wanted ...
Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has repeatedly warned that it is not external, but rather the threat of internal divisions, that pose the gravest threat to the survival of the Islamic Emirate, ...
A rare audio clip attributed to Haibatullah Akhundzada has reignited debate over growing rifts inside the Taliban. The ...
Interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani has weirdly become the unlikely champion of what passes for ‘reform,’ if such a word can ...